A CFPB Official Who Quit in Protest Will Testify About the Bureau’s ‘Incompetence’ A CFPB Official Who Quit in Protest Will Testify About the Bureau’s ‘Incompetence’
Seth Frotman has tough words for CFPB’s political leadership, and big ideas on how to solve the student-debt crisis.
Mar 7, 2019 / George Zornick
The Department of Justice Is Turning Back the Clock on Corporate Accountability The Department of Justice Is Turning Back the Clock on Corporate Accountability
Under Trump, fines on big banks have dropped precipitously and efforts to pursue bad-acting executives have been undermined.
Mar 6, 2019 / Dylan Tokar
Sherrod Brown Talks About Populism, Work, Health Care, War… and 2020 Sherrod Brown Talks About Populism, Work, Health Care, War… and 2020
He’s repeatedly won elections as a pro-labor, anti-war advocate for civil rights and civil liberties in Ohio, where Democrats have increasingly failed. Could he win the presidency?
Mar 6, 2019 / Feature / John Nichols
We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It? We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It?
A new report outlines how to help millions of US children living in poverty.
Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann
How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights How Mumbai’s Sanitation Workers Won Their Rights
This union movement used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to successfully organize Dalit workers.
Mar 5, 2019 / Sujatha Fernandes
Bernie Has Feelings, Too! Bernie Has Feelings, Too!
Democrats have borrowed liberally from Sanders’s policy book. The one thing they can't claim? His life story.
Mar 4, 2019 / Matthew Zeitlin
Richard Gottfried’s Health-Care Crusade Is Paying Off Richard Gottfried’s Health-Care Crusade Is Paying Off
The NY State Assembly member has spent 27 years advocating for statewide health care. Now, his colleagues in Albany are finally catching up.
Mar 1, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz
Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That
They demand that the university cancel its holdings in the Puerto Rican debt and divest from the fossil-fuel industry.
Mar 1, 2019 / StudentNation / Adriana Colón-Adorno and Alejandro Comas-Short
Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation
But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.
Mar 1, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich
Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self
The 27-year-old Athens, Georgia, county commissioner leans into her humanity as she fights for social justice.
Mar 1, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman